Sydney, May 11: Cricket Australia (CA) has offered top players, including captain Steve Smith and opener David Warner, with multi-year contract deals if they forgo their lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) contracts.
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According to the "Sydney Morning Herald" newspaper, CA got in touch with Smith, Warner and fast bowlers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins with "verbal offers of three-year deals" rather than standard one-year central contracts on the condition that they sit out the cash-rich IPL.